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Frame Guidelines To Hospitals For Creating 'Oxygen Master Plan', To Have Own Oxygen Plants As Licensing Requirement: Plea In Delhi High Court
A plea has been filed in the Delhi High Court for framing guidelines to hospitals to create "Oxygen Master Plan" including mandatory directions to hospitals to have their own Oxygen Plants as a licensing requirement and arrangement of Oxygen tankers, Uninterrupted Oxygen supply points and Oxygen ambulance.The plea, filed by Jaswinder Singh Jolly and moved through Advocates Naginder Benipal...
Bar Council Of Delhi To Provide Free Oxygen Cylinders For Its Members & Their Families Affected By Covid-19 & Undergoing Treatment At Home In Delhi NCR
The Bar Council of Delhi has arranged to facilitate supply of Oxygen cylinders for exclusive use by its members and their immediate families who stay with them in the Delhi-NCR region, and are undergoing treatment at home. The Council has stated that any member enrolled with Bar Council of Delhi who is in urgent/emergency need of Oxygen may contact...
Bombay High Court directs State to Hand Over Idle Manufacturing Unit to Biovit for Producing Covaxin
The Bombay High Court has allowed Biovit Pvt Ltd, an associate company of Bharat Biotech, to take possession of a ready to use vaccine manufacturing facility in Maharashtra's Pune District to produce the Covid-19 vaccine - 'Covaxin.' The division bench of Justices K K Tated and N R Borkar allowed Biovit's interim application in a petition challenging the Forest Department's decision...
Alumni Association Of NUJS Raises More Than 50 Lakhs For COVID-19 Relief
The Alumni Association of West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) conducted a fundraiser and managed to raise more than Rs. 50 lakhs to donate to organisations working on COVID-19 relief. The fundraiser, which was initiated on May 1, 2021, was organized with the NGO, Milaap, and raised the amount which will be provided to organisations such as Doctors For You...
Delhi HC Directs Centre, Delhi Govt To Take Immediate Steps To Ensure Transparent Allocation, Distribution Of Tocilizumab Doses To States/UTs
The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the Centre and the Delhi Government to take immediate steps to ensure that the Tocilizumab doses received by tonight and May 15 are allocated and distributed transparently in a timely and efficient manner to all States and Union Territories for administration of patients who are in dire need of the same. A single judge bench comprising of Justice...
"Tamil Nadu Seem To Be Crying Out For Requisite Supply Of Drugs & Vaccines": Madras High Court Asks Govt To Be Prepared For 3rd COVID Wave
Tamil Nadu & Puducherry Seem To Be Crying Out For Requisite Supply Of Drugs & Vaccines: Madras HC Asks Govts To Be Prepared For 3rd COVID Wave Taking up its own-motion petition relating to monitoring the COVID-19 response in the state of Tamil Nadu & Puducherry, the Madras High Court on Monday (May 10) observed that both Tamil Nadu and Puducherry seem to be crying out for...
Post Poll Violence- "Will Take All Possible Steps To Ensure There Is No Violence In Future": West Bengal Govt. Submits Before Calcutta High Court
The Government of West Bengal today submitted before the Calcutta High Court that May 9, 2021 onwards, there was no violence reported in the State and it was further assured that all possible steps would be taken by the State so that there is no violence in the future as well. A Five-Judge-Bench comprising of Acting Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justice I. P. Mukerji, Justice Harish...
Covid-19: Gauhati High Court Extends Interim Orders Till June 1
Given the restricted functioning of Courts amid the second wave of Covid-19, a Full Bench of the Gauhati High Court has extended the interim orders passed by it, its outlying Benches and other subordinate Courts and Tribunals till June 1, 2021. The Court has further said that interim bails, anticipatory bail expiring in this period shall stand extended till May 31. In a suo moto...
'Prima Facie Dilutes Environment Act' : Bombay High Court Retrains MoEF from Granting Post-facto CRZ Clearance
The Bombay High Court has restrained the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change from granting environmental clearance (CRZ) to any project, based on a recent office memorandum (OM) "allowing ex-post-facto CRZ clearance" to projects. In an interim order, a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni observed that the OM's prima facie dilutes...
State Did Not Pay Heed To Expert Warning About COVID Second Wave : Uttarakhand High Court Pulls Up State Government
The Utttarakhand High Court on Monday pulled up the state government over its lack of preparedness to deal with the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic."Despite the fact that in January 2021 the scientific community kept on warning about the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the State did not pay any heed", a division bench comprising Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice...
Second Wave Of COVID Having Hit Several Parts Of India, Tripura Is Also Not Spared: Tripura HC Seeks State's Response On Several Fronts
Dealing with the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) Petition initiated last year suo motu to deal with the first wave of COVID affecting the State of Tripura, the Tripura High Court on Monday (May 10) sought certain details regarding COVID management in the State of Tripura. The Bench of Chief Justice Akil Kureshi and Justice S. Talapatra observed, "The so-called second wave...